[Acoma]

Ok I just had to write this after last nights Steamfactory event. I ended up leading the raid, leading the grenadier group and was the only ranger that was there at the time to pass out our most wonderfuly delightful buffs.

At each raid we try to get relativly close to our encounter and then Buff up and do strats. If for some reason you happen to miss it then you have to go a round about way to fill in your gaps. Dont send tells to the RL, ask for more info in /raidsay or use /say-/ooc-/shout if you need something.

If you need more info on the strats given please ask your group leader either in /group or /tell, they will usually be part of the managment team of Ah and can answer your questions. If they are not use the raid channel for the night and someone will answer it for you when they get a chance. (ahraid or ahopenraid)

If you miss some buffs or you died and we are regrouping and you realze you are missing a buff please do not start asking for said buff in the raid channel for the night. Use the alt+r function to bring up your raid window, look for the class that casts the buff you need then send them a tell.

The reason I say this is because it is so much easier for the caster to cast a buff on you from a tell by hitting /rt which will automatically target the last person that sent you a tell, if you are close. This makes buffing on the go much faster then me misspelling your name 5 times trying to get a target on you because I raid will all names turned off.

So in closing please be mindful of the different hats many of the raiders in this fine organization wear any given night. And if you happen to not get a reply from Drysst the shaman or Kalakob the cleric it is because Acoma the ranger is busy doing something else and I will get to you as fast as humanly possible. Or totally miss it, and if that happens then send Acoma a tell because it is harder to miss things on the 24" monitor compared to the 17" laptop screen.

Thanks again for another fun evening of raiding and lets keep on winning events and gearing up so we can move on up in content.
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Plus 85 Cleric

[Vahlaura]

Hehe, makes good common sense
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[elric]

Aye, and brings to mind my point.

Please DO NOT send tells to the RL. I know you mean well, but we're SO busy it slows down the whole raid. If it's a question, ask in group or our chat channel. If it's to request a buff (i.e. Acoma was only ranja on for SF) Ask yourself if you HAVE to have it. Tank lineup I can see asking for CoF, but that's about it.

Personally, I'm amazed at Acoma. 3 boxing and being RL.... I get stressed playing 1 toon and being RL

[Acoma]

[elric]

Aye, learning curve is very apt.

I try and offload the RL title to anyone who is willing to take it

That is for one simple reason. Being RL is VERY stressful, spreading it around means noone gets burnt out.

Yes, raids aren't as fast as you'd like. Remember, if you would like to step up to being a RL, just ask a SL, we'll give you the pain hat...errr reins.

Remember, RL isn't a SL, we're trying to get folks to master 1 or 2 events, lead those, then pass RL to someone else. This way noone gets burnt out

If you're RL, you don't have to designate everything, that's what us SL's are here for. We'll assist in group makeup, tank selection, dps setup, strats, everything but the actual leading of the event.

I know there are folks out there that want us to go faster on raid nights, here is your chance

[Puvia]

I would LOVE to lead but I have this job that limits me to raiding 1 night a week. I might be getting another job during the day and phase out this current job but not for the purposes of raiding. I need to get back to seeing the daylight lol and do some sun tanning.

I have ideas to make raids faster but I have yet to lead a raid so I am not sure what ALL is expected of the RL at the time. No I enjoy laying back and throwing heals time to time so responsibility is beyond me at the moment.
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[Acoma]